[Boatanchors] LightSquared

[Drew P.]

Richard Knoppow wrote:

"I used to hear Loran-A all the time, it had what music
people call a phasing or flanging effect so that the pitch
of the pulses ran up and down cyclically.  It was a great
signal for testing noise limiters. I could just barely hear
a Loran-C station on my BC-779 but I did not attempt to make
any sort of LW antenna. I have no idea where that station
was but the Loran-A station must have been in San Pedro
because it was consistently very strong both day and night."

In my location, 2 stations could be received on one channel; these of course had different pulse repetition rates. One transmitter's pulses "catching up to and passing by" the other transmitter's pulses gave that distinctive rise-and-fall sound or flanging.  On another channel, I could only hear one transmitter; there the signal sounded "flat".

Drew